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@XeroxCool@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you cheat in games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As a child: yes As a teen: absolutely not As an adult: I cannot express how much I do not give a fuck about my ability to beat a game as intended. I only care about having fun.

  There is fun to be had with a work/reward balance but sometimes there’s just too much work/skill needed and it can kill the fun. Granted, cheats don’t exist as much in primary titles as much as they used to. It’s more like reducing difficulty for a sequence or chapter.

  No cheating in PvP though. Just solo and coop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a person buys something with a CC to help their credit score, and in a couple days returns it, does that help or hurt your credit? Why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s soliciting. I didn’t get any mortgage solicitation until I started applying. I will now be getting unsolicited refinance offers until the end of time.

  They hope you’ll pay interest on credit. They do not require you to pay interest and do not have any way to see if you’ve paid interest with other creditors. They know people only have to slip once before it becomes a profitable spiral for them.

  Credit offers target lower scores too, just with more predatory things like higher interest rates or requiring secured deposits. Everyone will have different credit limits, too. While the credit card companies enjoy when you overspend and have to pay interest, they do want you to actually pay it back, so there’s a limit to how much they’ll extend to you. Plus, limits change over time. All but one of my cards has increased over time as they “trust” me (read: they wish I’d use their card more than the others by not worrying about utilization). One card went down due to underutilization, which I found odd, but I guess they were more worried about controlling their own lending promises than enticing their customer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a person buys something with a CC to help their credit score, and in a couple days returns it, does that help or hurt your credit? Why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You do not need to pay interest. You need to let statements close out monthly with a balance. Interest on that balance will not accrue until the next cycle closes.

  Say your statement closes on the 1st of the month. Buy something on Jan 15th. Let the statement close Feb 1st. Pay it off any time before Mar 1st. You get a benefit to your score by showing utilization without accruing any interest.

  Paying off a loan hurts your score because of other things like reducing borrowing power, messing with utilization, and usually lowering the average age of all accounts. Nothing to do with paying interest.

  If you can’t jump straight to a car or home loan, collect credit cards if you have the willpower to avoid debt. That’s how I built it up. I got a new card annually for several years. I’d take advantage of intro promos, but once those were up, I’d just assign some small monthly subscription to a card. Gotta spend and close with a balance to look good on paper, but also need to occasionally spend to keep them from canceling the card, too. At peak, my combined credit limit was more than my income, spread across 8 cards. That was double an average car msrp. It worked perfectly fine for a mortgage application despite driving older cars bought with cash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do millennials keep looking significantly more youthful than previous generations?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you in that age group? Your age group tends to look younger than expected, younger groups look like perpetual babies, and older generations look like perpetual adults/old timers. Always been a thing. Do you remember being 10 and thinking your 18 year old cousin was a full grown adult? When you’re even just 25, you might think your other 18 year old cousin looks like a baby.

  It’s not just bodily appearance, it’s their style. If I saw a 40 year old man with a combover and sideburns while wearing a short sleeve button down, I’d say they owned a house in 1976 on a used car salesman’s salary. I’d have to cognitively recognize that even a 20 year old in 1976 would be 70 now. If I saw a 60 year old in an Arctic Monkeys shirt and cargo pants, I’d probably gauge them to have been a teen with an ipod. In reality, they’d have been 35 when the ipod was first released. There’s so many cues we use to evaluate a person. Hair, makeup, clothing, accent, vernacular, interests, activities… Plus, it’s not just association of trends to their calendar years, but association of trends to your age. The fang bangs pictured are more recently trending, but if you’re ~35-45 now and she currently had whatever that post-goth emo fringe sideswipe blond/black fade style is called, you’d probably still take 10-15 years off your estimate. Meanwhile, take someone like Amy Winehouse. What do you gauge her age to be? Beehive hair, winged eyeliner, vintage sound. Not gonna /spoiler tag but she died when she was twenty seven.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A driver in New York City covered his license plate with tape⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The toll gets mailed to the address on file for the registration

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is this place? How is it related to perchance?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To add on, someone can make a new community (“subreddit”) on an instance (“server”) (lemmy world, db0, etc) and name it whatever they want, including the same exact name as a community on another instance. So there may be more than one c/perchance. And to make it more confusing, instance eowners choose if they want to federate (connect) nto other instances. This allows different instances to see and comment on each other’s posts, but instance owners can also choose to defederate from instances they disagree with at a core level. Lemmy. World is the one most reddit expats chose in 2023. It doesn’t really matter which you’re on, but you may eventually want to join an community hosted on a non-federated instance. You’ll either need a new account elsewhere and start over or just use a dedicated account there. There’s no karma here, so not a whole lot to lose with a fresh start, aside form rebuilding your subs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can I put on a street lamp to stop the light in one direction?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The local government or utility may be able to help. Several lights in my area have shutter shades on them that help control sideways/upwards light and keep the beam focused on the ground. It’s called “light intrusion” when someone else shine slight into your property

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do East Asian men barely get thick facial hair?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Otezla pills? Tremfya injection?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I break my sense of taste?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If I have ice cream and then a piece of 100% dark chocolate, its tasteless. When I do keto and have a piece of 100% as my only dessert, it’s the sweetest thing in my life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky 10th anniversary Cosmos update is here, and that means orbital bases, space station ownership - and yes, you can finally fly to the sun⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahhh, I didn’t know they were fixed. I knew E:D took a more realistic approach and that every game makes compromises with rendering and instancing, but I never thought to question orbits. Cool, thank you for the info.

  I might be the only confused person in the thread, but I found this thread that explained more of what I wanted to know

  Steamcommunity.com/app/275850/discussions/0/4751948774782720853

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does most of the world use WhatsApp as their messaging app rather than RCS/SMS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For ~150 other countries, yes, carriers charge per SMS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky 10th anniversary Cosmos update is here, and that means orbital bases, space station ownership - and yes, you can finally fly to the sun⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting, thank you. Do the planets follow orbits at all? Did they just disregard the sun? Does not compute

  E:D lets you refuel by scooping the corona, so visiting stars seems critical in exploration

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky 10th anniversary Cosmos update is here, and that means orbital bases, space station ownership - and yes, you can finally fly to the sun⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can someone explain the sun thing? I read the article, all it says “yes you can visit, but it will be a perilous journey”. What was the previous limitation? What is expected now?

  I’m used to Elite: Dangerous. Ed ships have three travel modes: standard sublight (~1,000km/h), supercruise (0-2000c) between system bodies, and hyperspace jumps (wormhole from anywhere to the orbit of the main star of a system). So, in ED, you can supercruise up to any star, though it gets hot and it has an exclusion zone that drops you to sublight in the edge of its atmosphere. You can’t sublight further as the zone stops you. For reference of distance, it feels like you’re able to fly under the solar prominence loops, though they fade by time you reach the graphics sprite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we at a point in human history where we can get robotic limbs and other things to better our day to day lives? Like a robotic arm where I can pick up 100lbs with one arm and so forth?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A huge part of lifting things as a normal human is finger strength. 100lbs is fairly casual to support with your body if you bypass the need for fingers and don’t have to maneuver it. I have these furniture lifting straps that go over the base of your forearm (near elbow), go under the furniture like a wardrobe, then up to another person’s forearms. The was at which your forearms can lift feels like magic once you take the pain out of your fingers. I’ve used these with several people and all give the same response. I highly recommend getting them.

  So while I’m not saying an arm could lift a car, many objects in our lives are movable because, at the upper limit, they’re kind of movable by humans already. I know you picked that weight at random, but the need for more of a brace than just the arm is more for the device’s own support rather than a limit of an average human body. And of course the size and shape of the object matters a lot too. But if it’s something where the weight can be supported well by your legs and core in some configuration, that’s not a lot of weight. Something like a pair of arms for equal support and a brace that extends to the waist would be manageable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do analog triggers matter all that much? (In general and aside from racing games)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been a long time since I played PS2, but the analog triggers and bumpers and X/O/Tri/Sq got a fair amount of function. Ace Combat is of course a racing/flying category, but a non-racing function was Square pressure zoomed out the map variable. The other 3 shape buttons didn’t utilize pressure sensitivity, but the triggers and bumpers variable controlled throttle/brake and yaw.

  I vaguely remember an FPS game where aiming down sights with binoculars equipped offered variable zoom.

  But realistically, there’s a ton of uses for variable buttons, but devs have to employ them. I’d bet the utilization of the 6 extra PS buttons is nonexistent for any cross-platform games, especially PvP games. If you stick to PS-only titles, you’d probably find more examples. Unfortunately, I stopped at PS2, and nearly everything in my collection was racing. I can’t remember the details, but something about the Xbox one controller was lacking when I played the Spyro trilogy re-release/re-port.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the world's "oldest profession" still illegal ? Instead of being better managed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to agree with the idea that legalizing it would attract epxloitive and abusive managers, increasing harm to (primarily) women. Now I don’t. Why? Because the “morally acceptable” workforce is already subject to predatory and abusive managers. Meanwhile, we already have labor slaves, immigrants separated from their passports, smugglers routinely demanding additional pay. You know what the “morally-acceptable” victims can do? Report themselves to authorities and get legal action and protection. You know what people knowingly engaging in illegal activities can’t do? Go to the authorities.

  Make it legal. Make it visible. Make it taxable and licensable, if so needed. Keeping it in the dark means the workers will heavily skew towards desparation, knowing they’re risking legal consequences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube won't let me search for music by musician unless I remove the word "naked" from her name⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Playing devil’s rusted avocado, if I know anything about mature content submissions, they’ll latch onto any whitelisted combo as soon as it’s discovered and dilute the actual desired content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hexagonal slotted misalignment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ahem actually, SL8 is aligned to faces. SL10 is aligned to both vertices and edges. The vertex is the pinpoint of a corner

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't people wear underwear under the padded bike shorts?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Quick question, does your bike seat have the padded part or is it just the tube?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True torture⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Orating tongue-twisters

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why put data centers in space?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Into another environment, no?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why put data centers in space?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Overheating is a massive issue outside the atmosphere. There’s no passive airflow to transfer heat through convection and there’s no air at all to utilize conduction. The only method left is radiation - the mechanism that let’s you feel the heat of a fire from the side. That’s the slowest option of them all.

  Space is not cold in any sense of thermal management because space is essentially empty. Representations of people/fluids freezing when evacuated into space isn’t a good representation of actual thermal management. While there is some freezing effect, it’s because the rapid vaporizaiton of water cools the remaining water and can go below the freezing point. But, realistically, bodies don’t really freeze to an appreciable degree. Meanwhile, for everything else not containing water, there’s nothing to cool it down. In fact, of the very few particles that are flying around, they’re actually quite hot. Atoms flying for millions of years are still over 20,000 degrees.

  So no. Thermal management makes orbital data centers the actual worst option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 749 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Far Cry had the same loop in 3 and 4. Yes, it’s part of the classic ubi formula. Anyway, seems like Unity isn’t in your list. I recall that having about the same verticality as Syndicate, though no grappling hook and maybe less tall buildings. Mostly 3 floor apartment blocks plus some cathedrals. I played 1 year after release and really didn’t have any bugs, in spite of initial reviews

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon thought it would be a good idea to not include subtitles in a film made entirely with sign language.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Diversity, Equality, Inclusion. The acts support diversity by barring exclusion on grounds of demographics and demanding equality by barring the use of demographic information as part of the hiring process. DEI does not define any minimum diversity metrics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon thought it would be a good idea to not include subtitles in a film made entirely with sign language.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You seem to think DEI is when employers have to meet a diversity quota, when in reality, it upholds laws stating employers can’t make any hiring decisions based on race or any other such demographic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey jackass, this is why trucks with large tires are supposed to have mud flaps.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wheel coverings are required with a maximum exposure limit. The body usually does the job. Look to the 2022 Jag F-type and F-pace for little spats in the upper rear of the rear wheel arch for hidden compliancy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the Home Alone house then and now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re rare. When you see many identical houses in a neighborhood, it means one contractor developed the whole group. Usually through deforestation to expand the suburbs. They are still fabricated on site, not delivered/assembled

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An american on Reddit wrote: "I’m not sure it’s really a good idea to let legislation through on a 51-49 vote: making a change should really take more consensus than that"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did it lower from 2/3+1 to 2/3 flat or is this math a perfect 5/7?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is AOC a big deal? She just speaks common sense and calls out absurdity. Have we really gone that far off the rails where we don't do it ourselves?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Typing how useless this comment is for the other 94% of the planet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Stephen Colbert had The Colbert Report did the right ever realize he was doing a parody of them?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dubya Bush brought him to the presidential dinner unironically